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Debian on an old Dell Inspiron 3500 Celeron laptop
Posted by chr0nik on Sun 25 Jun 2006 at 05:55
I've enjoyed Debian for years. I've run Debian on a ~10 year old Dell Dimension XPS T450 desktop which now hosts my playground/personal domain as well. I've just finished burning a fresh netinst CD and I can't wait to see Debian revive this crusty laptop. My hope is to make it my database server. I wonder how smooth the transition will be for gallery, wordpress, phpmyadmin and tomcat to look to this new old box for mysql connections. Like I said, I can't wait. :)
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Smashing. Other than some disk space issues whilst switching from stable to testing, Debian installed flawlessly. The installer font looks gorgeous on this 14.1 LCD, jeez - 1 of many great reasons to save space and lose X.
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Hmm.. not bad.. but I'm running a server on a 133MHz Cyprus CPU with 128 (up from 64) MB of SDRAM, with an 8GB hard drive.. :P
It's my web and mail server, and it also runs irssi and hosts a perl irc bot and a wiki. It's noticeably slow sshing (No X installed), but it's not bad. And it can do so much more than Windows 98 (or 95).
It's my web and mail server, and it also runs irssi and hosts a perl irc bot and a wiki. It's noticeably slow sshing (No X installed), but it's not bad. And it can do so much more than Windows 98 (or 95).
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